How to loop an animation?

In a watch face on a real device, the watch face only drops out of low power for about 10 seconds

from the API Doc for animate:

Note:

Will cause an app crash if called from background or data field app, or from watch face while in low power mode

Thank you!

10 seconds would actually be more than enough. It's a short 7 frame animation sequence that just shouldn't stop after the first run. I'd like it to loop for at least 5 seconds following onExitSleep(). 

Is it actually possible to define an array of images in monkey c and loop through this array in the background e.g. by using a timer? Or would the update interval be too slow compared to an actual animation?

Cool! Thanks! Somehow missed that one. I'll take a look into it...